Wellington Professional Toastmasters Club

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Mānawatia a Matariki! We had a fantastic evening this week to celebrate Matariki, our successful Toastmasters year, our club's fantastic achievement of President's Distinguished Club status for the 2nd year, our member's achievements, and of course the exciting new Toastmasters year ahead!

What an amazing night it was last night!!!

The Area G4 Speech Contest hosted by our club featured 4 engaging speech categories:
International, Humorous, Evaluation, and Table Topics.

🇳🇿During the International Speech contests, Anthony's childhood "Don't touch!" story was enthralling.
Anna talked about her favorite song and the importance of pausing, captivating the audience. Bichitra mesmerized with his speech on cricket and humility.

📋During the Evaluation Contest, Max and Michael were tasked with assessing Terry Cave's speech about his experiences in South Korea and his insights on beauty and imperfection, providing valuable feedback for the benefit of all participants.

😂The third competition featured the Humorous Speech category. Tim from Wellington's club entertained us with his exciting drama/comedy experience with the ocean, and Christine captivated the audience with her hilarious stories, teaching us the valuable lesson of assuming nothing!

🚦Finally, we had three participants for the Table Topics contest. We have discovered that Michael's preferred season is winter, Serge's is summer, and Bichitra's is December.

🏆🥳🥳Congratulations to the Area G4 Toastmasters winners:
International Speech - Bichitra Panigrahy
Table Topics - Bichitra Panigrahy

A special congratulations to our two Toastmasters members: 🥇🥇
Evaluation contest - Michael Flaus 🥇
Humorous speech - Christine Young 🥇

A big thank you to you all who helped make our 4 contests a success! Congratulations to all the contestants for taking part, and a special congratulations to our placegetters. Our first placegetters and Nominee will represent us at the Area contest in early February - date to be announced.

Evaluation contest:
1st place: Michael Flaus
2nd place: Anna Spencer
3rd place: Vikram Rana

Humorous Speech contest:
1st place: Christine Young
2nd place: Angus Hunter
3rd place: Ildomar Grings

Table Topic contest:
1st place: Michael Flaus
2nd place: Tamsin White
3rd place: Antonela Prieto

International contest:
Nominee - Anna Spencer

We’re officially a distinguished Toastmasters club! That means our membership is solid, our members are achieving great things with their public speaking, and our club is thriving!

Thanks to all our committee members and members past and present for making this happen. Pictured here is our special cake to celebrate, with our new club president Christine with current president Anna, and our members at dinner after our ABM on Monday.

Congrats Toasties!

A huge congratulations to our four Area G4 speech contest winners: Christine, Elizabeth, Chris and Janelle in the International, Evaluation, Table Topics and Humorous speech contests!🏆🥇🤩

They will go on to represent our club at the Division Contest on 18 March - we wish them the best of luck!

We had a great time at our club Christmas party recently! The theme was “sparkle” and we enjoyed food and drinks at the Green Man.

We have one final meeting for the year on Monday 12 December - guests are most welcome!

We will return on Monday 16 January in 2023.

Merry Christmas to all our members and guests and we are looking forward to seeing you all next year!

Congratulations to the entrants, winners and place getters of our Toastmasters International and Evaluation Contests on Monday!

The winners will be representing our club at the Area Contest 🏆

Congratulations to the entrants, winners and place getters of our humorous speech contest and table topics contest on Monday!

🏅Humorous speech contest:
1. Janelle
2. Christine
3. Chris

🏅Table topics contest:
1. Chris
2. Anna
3. Mirendra

The winners will go on to represent our club at the Area contest.

Thanks to everyone who attended and joined us for burgers and a comedy show afterwards.

We will be holding our annual Toastmasters Club Humorous Speech and Table Topics Competitions on Monday 10 October!

Our members will be putting their public speaking skills to the test in a friendly competition to determine the winners who will represent our club at the Area contest.

Guests are most welcome to come along and enjoy the speeches - this is a great opportunity to see what Toastmasters is all about.

We will start by 5.30pm. Please arrive 5-10 minutes early.
Address: The Garden Room behind St. Peter's Anglican Church 211 Willis Street · Wellington.

Afterwards we will have dinner at Gorilla Burger/Fortune Favours on Leeds St, and then to the comedy night ($10 entry) at Fringe.

See you there!

We had a great time at our recent Winter Social event! We followed our usual Toastmasters meeting with a two-for-one stone grill at The Grand where our President Anna presented some certificates to club members. Some of us attended a local a comedy show afterwards!

Guests are most welcome at any of our meetings. If you've ever wanted to give Toastmasters a try, come along for free to see what it's all about.

We meet on Mondays from 5.30pm-7pm at the Garden Room at St Peter's on Willis. Send us a message for more information.

We had our club’s annual business meeting last night where we elected our new club committee and finished up the evening with a lovely meal at The Grand. Thanks to all our members and guests who attended!

There will be no club meeting on Monday 6 June due to the long weekend, but we’ll be back again on Monday 13 June from 5.30-7pm at the Garden Room at St Peter’s Church (211 Willis St). Visitors are most welcome!

See you there.

Our fantastic line up of speakers from our Club International and Table Topics contests last week. Congrats to Mirendra, Steve, Larissa and Glen who will now be going on to represent us at our Area contest March 10!! The Thistle was a great venue as always, great food and service. Events outside added a little new challenge this time, but adaptability skills all round meant nothing came in the way of a great night out!

What are you imagining for 2022? If one one of those things is being more confident to get up and speak in front of people come along and join us next Monday night! https://www.meetup.com/Wellington-Professional-Toastmasters/events/nwbqrsydccbpc/

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We're launching right into 2022 next Monday 10th January! We welcome visitors to join us at any of our meetings. Whether you are are looking to take the first step towards developing your public speaking and communication skills or wanting to boost your skills and confidence you will find your place at our friendly and fun club.

Please RSVP through the link below or through the Facebook event on this page. In 2022 we will be meeting at St Peter's on Willis, 211 Willis St in the Garden room.

https://www.meetup.com/Wellington-Professional-Toastmasters/events/ntfbmsydccbnb/

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It was a great end to a great year for us at Wellington Professional Toastmasters! Last week was our final meeting for the year and we decided to take the night off to go out and celebrate together.

We'll be back on Monday 10th Jan at 5.30pm in a new and improved venue with plenty of space for us all and our visitors. Watch this space for more details in the new year and we hope to see you in early 2022!

Until then happy holidays and merry Christmas to you all!